Account of the life and writings of Robert Simson ...
Publisher: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for G. and W. Nicol, London
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Simson, Robert, -- 1687-1768; Pappus, -- of Alexandria
Notes: Appendices: I. Account of the mathematical collections of Pappus, with a summary of the contents of several books.-  II. Two passages from Pappus, the Greek from the Savilian MSS. at Oxford, collated with the MS. Bull. and the Latin from Commandine's translation.-  III. Dr. Simson's translation of the general description of Euclid's Porisms in the preface to the viith book of Pappus.

Author's presentation copy to Sir John Leslie.